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Wisconsin Gets Sweltering Heat For First Day Of Fall

It's the first day of fall, but you wouldn't know it by the sweltering forecast for Wisconsin. Afternoon highs will be in the 90s in southern and western portions of the Badger State -- and the heat i...

Report: GOP Health Package Could Give Millions More To Wisconsin

Wisconsin could get its own windfall from the Republican health care package that's up for a vote in the U-S Senate next week. The bill from G-O-P Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy would reduce...

New UW Program Helps Families' First Generation Of Students

U-W Madison holds a kickoff ceremony today (Friday) for a program that helps Wisconsin families' first generation of college students. The Badger Promise covers tuition and fees for first generation s...

Two Face Possible Charges In Murder Of Pizza Delivery Driver

A 25-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy are awaiting charges in the killing of a pizza delivery driver in Milwaukee last Friday. Police say 60-year-old Clarence Taper was robbed while bringing an orde...

Evers: Let's Fix State's "Broken" School Finance System

In the same hour his political opponent was signing the new state budget, Wisconsin superintendent Tony Evers demanded a fix to what he called a "broken" school funding system. Evers -- a Democratic c...

Walker Signs Budget, Touts Highlights

Fourth and fifth graders surrounded Governor Scott Walker today (Thursday) when he signed the new state budget into law. The Republican Walker approved the two year, 76-billion dollar package at Tulla...

Senate Leader Snuffs Possible Budget Veto Overrides

Assembly Republicans are said to be grumbing about some of the 99 items their party's governor vetoed from the new state budget. And the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says there's at least some talk that...

Baby Hospitalized After Almost Drowning In Motel Tub

A ten-month-old baby is hospitalized in intensive care, after almost drowning in the bathtub of a motel room in the Wisconsin Dells area. Lake Delton Police were called to the Delton Motel around eigh...

Woman Killed In Appleton Domestic Incident

A 48-year-old woman has died after being shot during a domestic dispute at a home in Appleton. A 58-year-old man who lives in the house surrendered, and there was no immediate word on whether the two ...

Jakubowski Trial Set To Start Monday, Jury To Be Sequestered

Barring a last minute plea deal, Joseph Jakubowski will start going on trial Monday in U-S District Court in Madison. The 33-year-old Janesville man is accused of taking 18 guns and two silencers from...